I hit it on my gf's head.

I hit it on the wall....

Christmas 1987- I was 12, and my dad had put a guitar on layaway for me. A "Rockson", possibly Chinese made(?) Strat copy, Black & White, the only electric guitar available in our local music shop. It was £99 (Our car cost about £400), so every time I got a couple of quid for cleaning up or helping him load his van, I went into the shop to knock another bit off the price. Come Xmas, my dad paid the balance, and she was all mine. I actually walked around with it, couldn't put it down.

...fast forward 2 years- Sepultura released "Beneath The Remains" and I was hooked. Anybody remember Max Cavalera's white Warlock? Me and my brother took a belt sander and a jigsaw to my strat. Chopped big lumps out of it. Sprayed it with a single can of white paint that still left the grain and sawmarks showing. I was very pleased with myself. My dad just shook his head.

...couple of years later, I sold it to my friend, who painted it red, painted the scratchplate black, and put in a humbucker he'd found somewhere. At this stage, some of the points where the saw had cut into the wood had started to crack, through the body. We used a magic marker to make the cracks look bigger, and he started using a guitar that was able to stay in tune.

...a few more years, and I was sharing a flat with another friend, plus a few people crashing on the floor, permanent party etc. The guitar was lying in a closet, and when I moved out, it was a bit too awkward to carry, so I figured it would be easier to call back for it some other time. Did I ever call back? ...what do you think?

That was my first EVER guitar. I now own a '72 Mustang, an '05 CIJ Jaguar, a Mexican Classic Player Strat, American Standard Tele, Squier Tele, a 1968 Kawai Del-Rey type, plus a couple of others. But my very first guitar probably ended up in a bin somewhere.

I need a drink...

I haven't thought about this in years. This goes back to the early '70s.

A couple of my guitar-playing buds and I got together one day to jam. One guy pulled out an old guitar he didn't really like anymore -- it was a '60s-era Gibson Les Paul Jr. He said it looked old fashioned and he wanted to refinish it so we took it to the basement and stripped about half of the finish off. We quit for the day and never finished the job.

Remember, back in the day no one talked about vintage guitars and the LP Jr was considered a student level guitar that found a pro following years later. Still, had he left in the closet for 15 or 20 more years it would have been worth some big bucks. I wonder what ever became of it?

besides leaving it in my car so it could end up stolen? trying to be cool ad swinging it around my neck so the strap could come off, and she could land face down in a gravel parking lot. Thank God it was a brand x, and not a fender...i'd have probably stabbed myself.

the stolen one? No, that was a fender. approx 76 strat i gotas payment for a $75 debt in 1986. creep that stole it probably launched his career with it, too. couldn't sleep for a week.

really?

but... is the guitar ok?

Back to Stratmansteve"

You know it's interesting that so many of these have to do with the alteration of an instrument years before it became a collectible. Like the black short horn '58 double pickup Danelectro I took apart after I acquired my '58 Stratocaster, which, in later years, I sent to Fender to be refinished.

The most famous and expensive Stratocaster ever sold, a veritible piece of junk by its appearance and playability, was cobbled from a clutch of used guitars which were purchased for a song, because there was no heavy interest or demand for Strats at the time. Would Eric Clapton ever have dreamed back then, that the hybrid mutt he pieced together would some day bring over one million dollars at auction

Doc

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My dumb thing is Yet Another (Not so) Brilliant refinish job. My uncle sold me his '64 Mustang in 1967 and at some point in 68, I saw someone with a red, white and blue custom job SG that was beyond cool. So the drummer and I decided to go to work.

Stripping the guitar (we weren't thinking it would be a collectible one day), not too hard. Sanding smooth and flawless ... easy enough with some time. But then we went to paint it ... disaster. Strip again, try again, same results.

Finally, the same uncle was in town and he told me he could take it back with him and have it painted in the shop where he worked. Okay, cool ... but time went by, I saw him a few more times and no guitar. One time, he almost took my head off - "Quit riding me. You'll get your GD guitar back when I have time. I'm doing you the favor buddy."

I thanked him but said, no need ... just give it back as is. What I didn't know was that he and my aunt were going through a nasty divorce. I never did see the guitar again but then, no one ever saw him again either.

I ended up attaching the neck and electronics to a body (I think around 73 vintage) I found at a swap shop. But I sure wish I had the original!

Sold it

Almost forgot.....I pulled all of the guts and such out of an old Teisco.
I thought i would "customize it"..(I was 13)...Not much has changed now. Except i can always ask the forum or go to a site for a diagram...lol.
I have seen the Teisco I had a few times on epay going for a sh** ton of money...........yeah .....I ....know,.......DOH!!!!!!!!

Well I decided to strip the paint off the body and repaint it, but i (f)(m)ucked that up. In my anger I kicked it around for awhile, threw it at a wall a few times, threw it at chavvy prats hanging around the alleyway then threw it in the bin. The missus rescued it and hid it from my wrath. When I'd cooled down, a few months later she gave it back to me. I had another crack at repainting it. Still no great shakes with a spraycan but it was ok from a distance. Anyhow, I'm kicking around one day feeling very bored. Which is quite unlike me, I can generaly get intrested in pretty much anything. (Too much substance abuse will do that for you.) Some people are jabbering on about scorching their guitars after the last hendrix auction. So I set fire to this guitar body, to show them the folly of the idea they were entertaining. Did one of them cough up any green for the valuable lesson I taught them. Did they buggery.
Anyways I gave the body to some other crazy english bloke who reckoned he could put it right. He seems quite dedicated to the cause.

Oh theres the explorer I built that I wrapped around some idiots head i caught breaking into my car.

Hows that for stupid.

Is that stupid enough for ya?

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No no and no

i once smashed my kapok acoustic because my brother made me very angry

Mine was where I was filming a video on my phone for a friend, and I got a bit into the music and accidentley on-purposly just dropped my guitar. It chiped the nut, broke the e, d, and g string. I felt so stupid.

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Hey if someones breaking into my car ...I think hitting them is a knee-jerk-reaction. Plus you have that crazy bloke Ceri around to help you.lol

i've done a slide with my guitar and the strap let go and so it flew and broke.
Darn i payed good money for that strat

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